Assignment #3 My thoughts and new findings on ESL Cyber Listening Lab

Q.1 What did you learn from this week's class?

I learn how to pronounce reduce sound and vowel reduction.

Q.2 Did you find the website (ESL Cyber Listening Lab accent reduction and linking) helpful to you? Be as specific as possible.

I find this website very helpful. The following are the linking and the reduction examples

An example of linking : I go to school either by bus or taking MRT train.
                                        I go-to school either by bus-or taking MRT train.

An example of accent reduction:
Steven can run 100 meters in 18 seconds and I have to beat him or I will be teased.
Steven cən run 100 meters in 18 seconds and I haftə beat him ər I will be teased.

Q.3 Are you going to use ESL Cyber Listening Lab to improve your English in the future why or not ?
I would use ESL Cyber Listening Lab to improve my English listening skill in the future because they include the recording of native speakers and the speed as well.  I personally think it very suitable for TOIEC, this is the speed of conversation of TOIEC. If I listen to this very often I won't be afraid of TOIEC conversation section.

Assignment #2

This week's assignment is do so hme dictionary work from Oxford Advance Learner Dictionary from a conversation between two men doing a haircut in "Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab" a conversation called "Just A Hair Cut Please !"

1.beautician (noun)

 a person, usually a woman, whose job is to give beauty treatments to the face and body
The beautician mess up the customer's hair in the conversation of "Just A Hair Cut Please".

2.butchered (verb)

To cut without care 

I  tried to cut my fringe with scissors and without looking at a mirror, and I really butchered it badly and it looks like a dog bites it.

3.in good hands ( idiom )

in competent or safe care
I know the children are in good hands when they are under my care. 

4.lean back (verb)

to move the body backwards and down,
When the barber wants to cut the hair that grows on the top of the neck they will ask the customer to lean back.

5. voila  (exclamation)

an expression to indicate satisfied completion
When I say to my girlfriend "voila! here is your new hair style" she hit me in the shoulder. I wonder why she did that for.

Greating

Hi,everyone as you may know my name is Kevin. My Chinese name is 蔡明峰. Welcome to my very first blog in Google blogger.

 I was born in Taipei City where I live for nine years then I spent ten years in Gold Coast,Australia then I come back for University until now.

My family members.I have five people in my family there are mom, dad an elder and an elder sister. I am a Christian, I go to church every Sunday Morning.

I hope in this semester I could use  this blog to improve my English macro skills  What are English Macro skills? There are listening, speaking,reading and writing.

Hope you can enjoy my blog entries that I am going to write every week, and stay tuned every week to see new blog entry.